Humans guarantee each other many rights including happiness, dignity, health care, employment, voting, and free speech. These rights come in to question when taking away non-basic interests, such as comfort or quality of life, or losing interests that lower a quality of life. We then create a system in which we must choose which beings deserve and do not deserve certain treatments to meet our own desires. This is why some companies and organizations have begun to create new alternatives to testing on animals. People argue against or for animal testing on a basis of morality, validity and necessity which can all come from very different perspectives. However, animals are living organisms too, that feels pain and should have rights protecting them from such inhumane testing of products.

Animal testing has been used since the 1800’s. Louis Pasteur used chickens to develop his small pox vaccine which saved countless lives, but with the times changing and technology ever advancing there is little need to continue to test on animals. (Murnaghan) Product testing accounts for ten percent of all animal use for scientific purposes, which may seem like a small percentage, but actually translates to millions of animals being killed every year in order to produce a new type of mascara or moisturizer. Animal testing like this is unnecessary because of, as many scientists have said; there are too few replacement techniques to use in place of animal tests. However this is false, there are many alternative ways to test, like one replacement alternative that is testing on a synthetic skin called Corrositex. It can be used to see if a chemical substance will burn or corrode skin. Another form is, Computer modeling, specifically for educational purposes such as dissecting a frog in a biology laboratory. Computers also help scientists to gather more information from one test subject than before, therefore needing to harm fewer animals. There are many...

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Christine B
Beecher High School
Animal Experimentation is Barbaric
On average every second one animal in a USA laboratory is killed from an intrusive experiment (“Vivisection/Animals in Research”, 2012). Controversy on animal experimentation has dated back to as early as 1876, when France made the 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act, the first ever recorded to stopanimal experimentation (“Irish Statute Book”, 2002). Some people argue that animaltesting is necessary to save human lives. The experiments are not only barbaric but also unnecessary. The experiments have not been proven to be very helpful, but very distressful to the animals. Many people say that animals cannot feel pain, but why experiment on an animal that is not the same as experimenting on humans? The United States alone spends too much money on animal research that is not useful to humans. Animal experimentation should immediately be outlawed; it is the worst kind of scientific research that can be conducted.
Animal experimentation has been going on since before Christ and has been recorded many times in history. The earliest known animal experimentation was from Aristotle in the third and fourth centuries BC (“Laboratory Primate Advocacy Group”,...

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14 Nov. 2011
Animal Research: Is it right or wrong?
The discussion of whether or not animal dissection and research is necessary as teaching tools and is morally correct has been dominated by two different views. On the one hand, some may argue that this violates animal rights, and how there are better ways of going about research and teaching. On the other hand, others also contend that this is a good way for researchers and students alike to get “hands on” experience, and is also morally just since it is used for a good purpose. Others even maintain that by using animals for something other than teaching is inaccurate since mice can react and have different symptoms compared to humans. My own view is that animal dissection and vivisection is just in how it can be used to find cures for various diseases, also depending on the type of research being done the similarity between the animal and humans isn’t that big of a factor and is taken into account. However, acts that are not done solely for research or knowledge should not be allowed since it is being done without a logical reason and can be considered as a form of animal abuse.
May it be for a biology class where students dissect frogs, to a research lab where mice are used to study the symptoms and effects of various mental illnesses, animals have been used for research and teaching for years....

...4 Minute Speech againstanimaltesting
We should stop the use of animals for research and testing purposes. Animal research/testing refers to the use of non-human animals for testing or experimenting on. The use of animals for testing is used in the fields of: Biomedical research, security, evaluation, and education of a product. Every year animals are subject to experiments so painful and damaging that no one would ever do them on humans. Deciding whether or not to do animaltesting is a tough choice which no one should have to make. We feel that animaltesting is harmful, cruel, and unnecessary. We should look at how animals are treated in research and we should work to minimize or eliminate the number of animals who have to suffer through this procedure. Most research stated about 90% of research conducted on animals is performed on mice and rats. It is estimated that 50% of animals tested on annually are killed. This is supposed to be done to make the product safer for the humans and they are simply killing these animals. Researchers estimate animals used in research at well over 100 million. However, no one knows how many animals are used...

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AnimalTesting
Every year, over 100 million animals are painfully put to death because of animaltesting. Experimentation on animals goes way back since the beginning of time. Typically it is conducted for advancement in scientific research, to test products and food before going out into the market, to find treatments or test medical drugs, and to protect people and the environment.Animal experimentation has been a controversial issue for quite some time, but has yet to be put to an end. Vivisection should be prohibited and there are, in fact, more reliable alternatives to these inhumane experimentations.
The acts of animaltesting are extremely cruel and unethical and no living creature should have to endure the variety of pain that test subjects go through without their own consent. Millions of animals suffer from experimentation each year, but that number is not even precise since there are several countries that do not publish their data. Animals can receive something as little as an injection, or something as extreme as an organ transplant. Experiments classify the pain as being mild, moderate, severe, or unclassified. 61% of experiments fall into the category of severe suffering. Many of these severe tests predict from the start that an animal will die. Sometimes scientists try to mimic...

...Advancing Science without Harming AnimalsAnimals have been used repeatedly throughout the history of biomedical research. Early Greek physician-scientist, Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) performed experiments on living animals [1]. Just as the legendary Greek physician Galen (199 – 217 AD) performed experiments on animals, which led to advancements in the understanding of anatomy, physiology, pathology, and pharmacology [2]. Likewise, the twelfth century Arab physician Ibn Zuhr introduced animaltesting as an experimental method for testing surgical procedures before applying them to human patients [3].
In recent years, the use on animals for biomedical research has become a topic of criticism and debate because of the claim, “animals are necessary for biomedical research” which is unsupported by scientific literature [4]. In response to this debate is the growing awareness of the limitations of animal research and its incapability to make accurate predictions about human health [4]. Crystal Miller-Spiegel from aavs.org reported that in modern science, most researchers have begun to “induce into nonhuman animals virtually any conceivable human disease that exists, many of which do not even naturally occur in the species of animals being used.”
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...AnimalTesting Saves Lives
Animals have been used for testing by scientists for many decades. The research that has been gathered from animals has surpassed anything scientists could hope for. So why would such a highly debatable topic arise from such great accomplishments? Scientists use animals to test a theory and then alter their theories based upon the valuable information gathered from each experiment. Animal rights activists believe that animals are used for pointless tests and suffer tremendously. They tend to look aside from the facts that animals have given millions around the world a new outlook on life, and would rather see only the negative side effects of animaltesting which far outweighs the positive things animaltesting has contributed to the medical world. They don't realize that the animals they believe are being harmed, have not only impacted their lives in some way, but have impacted their families, friends, and children by providing people with vaccines and antibiotics which are deserving of more accreditation than what they label them. Millions of lives are saved every year because of one animal's, results to either a drug or new form of surgery, and I believe instead of believing that an animal's life was a waste; I view it instead as the next step in...

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The Ethical Research of AnimalTesting
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Animaltesting has been a hot topic of discussion in society for many years. The debate is whether or not animaltesting should be allowed. Some people believe that animaltesting is wrong and that it causes undue harm to animals. Throughout the last 150 years, the practice of usinganimals for research has been under intense scrutiny between animal activists and researchers. Scientists insist that the experimental research they do is essential for producing effective drugs, and the animal rights activists believe that testinganimals for advancements in medicine is not necessary. I believe that research using animals should continue as long as there is a reason for it to continue. Thanks to animal based research, to date millions of human lives have been saved. Animaltesting is the only way to find out if vaccinations work for different diseases. We cannot just ask people off the streets to volunteer, as that would be morally and ethically wrong. At this time, scientific researchers have no alternatives for testing new drugs, as scientific computer modules can only do so much for testing. Also, the government has strong laws in...

...﻿For many years, animals have been used in research both in the scientific and medical fields. In order to introduce new drugs into the market, they have to be tested first on animals in order to ascertain whether they are effective or not. Animal experimentation in this context defines the use of non-humans, mostly animals, to test new drugs and consumer goods such as cosmetics, pesticides, herbicides, food additives, among others (Taylor 120). Pharmaceutical companies and research institutions have been active in animal experiments because these institutions are charged with coming up with new drugs. What has however been controversial with animal experiments is whether this procedure should be banned or not based on its ethical implications. Animal rights activists have been at the forefront in advocating for a ban on animal experiments based on the ethical issues associated with it. For those supporting the use of animals in experiments, the arguments that have been made include possibilities of medical and scientific breakthroughs, safety for humans, and accuracy of results. When the benefits of animal experimentation are weighed against the drawbacks, it is evident that the procedure is beneficial. Accordingly, animal experimentation should not be banned.
First, animal experiments...